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Living Room / Re: Ars Technica on the problem with adblocking
« Last post by wraith808 on March 11, 2010, 02:10 PM »Well, you're better than like 90% of users out there (including me) 
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I will gladly put a no filtering entry in any ad removal program I use for sites that I truly enjoy and have TASTEFUL ads. Betanews is an example of a site with tasteless ads. After removing their ads, the pages become so much more readable, less lengthy, and overall easier to work with.-Josh (March 11, 2010, 05:52 AM)
I'll stop blocking ads when the following conditions are met:-rssapphire (March 11, 2010, 07:33 AM)
The issue I have with the concept of many content providers going to a 'micropayment' subscription is that for the user, eventually, all the micropayments for the stuff they want to read ends up being one big MACROpayment.
I've got enough monthly payments to deal with between car payments, car insurance, rent, phone bill, internet, and so forth. I don't want to and am not going to add a bunch of $.99 micropayments on top of everything else.
$.05 an article? Micropayment? How many articles have you read on the internet today? How many this month? Let's see... in the past hour or so I read...
$.05 1-Article MMO-Champion.com
$.10 2-Articles WoW.com
$.10 2-Articles Slashdot.org
$.10 2-Articles ArsTechnica.com
$.10 2-Articles Cracked.com
$.05 1-Article NYTimes.com
$.05 1-Article NewsoftheWeird.com
Ok... that works out to $.55 in an hour. Let's say 3 hours on the internet per day or 21 hours per week... $11.55 a week multiplied by 4 to get per month... $46.20... multiplied by 12 for the yearly cost... $554.40. $554.40 a year on micropayments!!!
So... tell me again... are you willing to make micropayments for every article you read on the internet?
Also, if many websites go to a micropayment model users will get sick of having to enter their credit card or paypal account every time they want to read something. Someone like Rupert Murdoch will come along and offer a whole bunch of this content for one payment instead of a ton of little payments.
It'll be a reintroduction to an AOL type experience where everything the average user would look at would be through the filter of one giant corporation.
Yep... Micropayments is exactly where the big corporations would like us to go.
4. I don't like companies such as steam, who offer single-player, offline only games, yet FORCE you to be online while playing. They also (I don't know about the latest version of steam, I now refuse to ever own it again) punish you for losing internet connection. What I mean by this, is, if you unexpectedly lose your connection for any reason, while steam is in ONLINE mode, you CANNOT get to your games. You have to be ONLINE to turn the damn thing to OFFLINE.-Stephen66515 (March 10, 2010, 11:35 AM)
nice use of sarcasm there 
I hope anon will keep on banging the DRM servers-f0dder (March 08, 2010, 12:06 PM)
This weekend's deal: score the king of the fighters, Street Fighter IV, for 50% off, from 2:00 A.M. PST on Friday, March 5 until 5:00 P.M. PST on Monday, March 8. It's the latest installment in one of the greatest franchises of all time, and you can pick it up at a great price, so act now!
RE: The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably WorkWell, I personally agree with Tycho over at PA... nobody wins on this one, and it just leans towards the death of PC gaming.Ubisoft's notorious "uncrackable" unfair game DRM falls in less than 24hhttp://www.boingboin...fts-notorious-u.html
-Edvard (March 05, 2010, 09:51 AM)
I don't see why they don't just see that it's not pirate or purchase. Most pirates wouldn't have purchased anyway, and most purchasers are going to purchase anyway. The only way this changes is if the publisher's contract with the purchaser is unreasonable (i.e. publish crap, and I'm not going to pay, make me inconvenienced and I'm not going to pay, make a crappy port and I'm not going to pay, etc). But for some reason this is beyond some publishers. I wonder what their response is going to be.I just can't stand having to send out that canned response + threat to people I know and generally like.-app103 (March 04, 2010, 10:34 AM)
Use firefox, keep it up to date, its usually fixed for exploits sooner than any use of exploit appears in the wild (which is also sooner than antivirus responds). Geez."Drive-by" a really cute buzzword loved by paranoid people since it means WHATEVER amount of common sense you have, you can still be screwed! = BUY a sucurity package, you MUST. Almost entirely BS...
Scary in it's coincidence, but I almost got screwed by a drive-by this morning. AVG saved me from it... so I don't know about that BS claim. It was my first time running afoul of a virus in a long time, and I hate to think what would have happened had I browsed to the site on my desktop that doesn't have AV software installed...-wraith808 (February 19, 2010, 12:11 PM)-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 04:50 AM)
We were supposed to start on the 1st...
